31 results about "Diagnostic substance" patented technology

Devices, systems and methods for stenting, spacing, draining, ventilating and/or delivering drugs and other therapeutic or diagnostic substances to desired locations within the bodies of human or non-human animal subjects, including methods and systems for treating paranasal sinusitis and ethmoid disease.

Antisense oligodeoxynucleotides against VR1, corresponding nucleotide constructs, cells containing said nucleotide constructs, pharmaceutical and diagnostic substances, uses thereof in pain therapy, and methods for diagnosing symptoms related to VR1 and for identifying pain-modulating substances.

The present invention relates to a microvesicle that is derived from nucleated mammalian cells, which are smaller than the nucleated cells. The microvesicles of the present invention can be used in the delivery of a therapeutic or diagnostic substance to specific tissues or cells, and more particularly, relates to microvesicles derived from monocytes, macrophages, dendritic cells, stem cells or the like, which can be used to deliver specific therapeutic or diagnostic substances for treating and/or diagnosing tissue associated with cancer, diseased blood vessels, inflammation, or the like.

A tissue marking implant includes a matrix material and a dye marker. The implant, which can be formed entirely of bioresorbable material such as a collagen foam, is sized and shaped to replace excised tissue. The implant supports surrounding tissue upon implantation, while allowing for in-growth of fibrous tissue to replace the implant. According to various alternative embodiments, the implant is elastically compressible, or can be formed from self-expanding foam or sponges, and can be implanted through a cannula or by injection, as well as by open procedures. The implant can carry therapeutic and diagnostic substances. The dye marker leaches from the implant such that a surgeon, upon subsequent surgical intervention, visibly recognizes the tissue marked by the dye marker.

A vectorization and delivery system of therapeutic or diagnostic substances including (i) at least one polymer and (ii) at least one nontoxic positively charged polysaccharide, the nanoparticles having a substantially homogeneous distribution of size.

The present invention relates to a therapeutic or/and diagnostic substance. Furthermore it relates to an expression vector, to a composition comprising the afore-mentioned substance or/and the afore-mentioned expression vector, a method for diagnosing a tumor disease or/and an infectious disease in a living being, as well as to a method for the treatment of a tumor disease or/and of an infection in a living being.

The present invention relates to cell membrane-derived nanovesicles, a method of preparing the same, and a pharmaceutical composition and a diagnostic kit using the nanovesicles. The cell membrane-derived nanovesicles according to the present invention may prevent the occurrence of potential side effects because intracellular materials (e.g., genetic materials and cytosolic proteins) unnecessary for delivery of therapeutic or diagnostic substances are removed from the nanovesicles. In addition, since the nanovesicles may be targeted to the specific types of cells or tissues, therapeutic or diagnostic substances may be predominantly delivered to the targeted cells or tissues while delivery of therapeutic or diagnostic substances to untargeted sites may be inhibited. Therefore, when the cell membrane-derived nanovesicles are applied to disease treatment, the side effects of therapeutic substances such as drugs may be reduced, so that suffering and inconvenience of patients may be alleviated during the course of treating diseases, and therapeutic efficacy may be improved. In addition, the cell membrane-derived nanovesicles of the present invention, in which substances for the treatment or diagnosis of diseases are loaded, and a method of preparing the nanovesicles may be used in vitro or in vivo for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes, or for experimental use.

Injectable mediums and methods for preparing and administering an injectable medium comprising therapeutic cells, and optionally one or more therapeutic or diagnostic substance, suitable for injection into an anatomical space of a human or animal subject, comprising hyaluronic acid in concentrations of 0.5 weight percent to 1.0 weight percent having a molecular weight of about ≧700 kDa to about 1,900 kDa and a storage modulus within the range of 5-25 Pa, which injectable mediums and methods prevent cell settling during transportation and storage of such injectable mediums comprising therapeutic cells, and optionally therapeutic or diagnostic substances; promote cell survival; facilitate administration of homogeneous injectable mediums comprising therapeutic cells, in particular NSCs; and enable rapid clearance by the body following injection, so as not to interfere with cellular integration with surrounding tissue.

In order to determine the aggressiveness of a prostate tumor, a diagnostic substance is administered to a patient that includes a biomarker provided with a first label that is detectable with a detection device and that specifically binds to a VEGF molecule, and that contains a biomarker that binds specifically to a target molecule that occurs uniformly in the endothelium of blood vessels of healthy tissue and the blood vessels of a prostate tumor, and that is provided with a second label that is detectable with the detection device independently of the first label.